DEFIANCE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2003

NEWS RELEASE

The Board of Defiance County Commissioners met at 8:30 a.m. in the Conference Room of the Board of Defiance County Commissioners, 500 Court Street, Suite A, Defiance, Ohio 43512 on Thursday, August 21, 2003. The meeting was called to order by Thomas Kime, Chairman. Present were Commissioners Thomas L. Kime, Otto L. Nicely and Richard L. Cromwell. Also present was Becky Wagner, Administrator, Alison Grimes, Clerk and Joan Brown, Deputy Clerk.

8:30 a.m. General Session – Commissioners approved and signed various resolutions, contracts and documents, approved several travel requests, reviewed the agenda items and the calendar of events, discussed upcoming meetings and updated information for the calendar of events. The Board discussed various meetings each attended during County Commissioner Days (August 19 and 20) in Greene County.

The Board was informed that the Emerald Ash Borer, an invasive, metallic wood-boring beetle from Asia, has been detected in the Hicksville area in Defiance County. Affected trees have been quarantined. The devastating disease, affecting ash trees, has killed thousands of trees in Michigan. For more information concerning this disease, please contact the Defiance branch of the OSU Extension office at 419.782.4771.

At 9:30 a.m., Randy Vogel, County Humane Agent, met briefly with the Board. He noted that the summer’s door-to-door checking of dog tags was successful. Approximately 85 tags were sold by this method to owners who had not obtained tags for their dog(s).

10:00 a.m. Becky Wagner, County Administrator, presented her weekly update for the Commissioners.

Three quotes were received for the purchase of a 5-well steam table for the Senior Services Center:

Restaurant Equippers $1,078.55

Tinkels, Inc. $1,608.00

Sysco Systems $1,322.00

As Restaurant Equippers was the low quote, Becky authorized the Senior Services Center to go ahead with that purchase.

Jerry Overmier, Beilharz Architects, Inc. will be meeting some time this week with Ron Cereghin, County Maintenance Supervisor, concerning the re-roofing of the Evergreen Lane Office Complex. A bid date for this project will probably be scheduled for mid-September.

Becky also received approval to attend an Ohio Personnel Law Update seminar September 9 and 10 in Cuyahoga Falls.

10:30 a.m. Tim Houck, Landfill Manager, met with the Board to present an update regarding the County Landfill.

He presented the July Landfill Solid Waste District Fee Pay-In report for the Board’s review and signatures. Following is a breakdown of tonnage collected for the month of July:

In-District: 5,680.67

Out-of-District: 105.91

Out-of-State: 45.57

Total: 5,832.15 tons

Total fees collected for the Solid Waste District for July: $11,664.30

Fees paid to Defiance Township for July: $1,458.04 ($0.25 per ton for disposal of waste generated in the county, outside the county and/or outside Ohio).

Due to wet conditions, mowing is slightly behind normal but should be caught up in the next day or so.

Two seasonal positions at the Landfill are in the process of being filled. At 10:43 a.m., Commissioners entered EXECUTIVE SESSION regarding the Hiring of Personnel (ORC 121.22 (G) (1)). EXECUTIVE SESSION ended at 10:50 a.m. The session was strictly informational; no decisions were made.

The Public Works Crew has been assigned to assist at the Fair.

Landfill: 7,733.90 tons of waste were received at the Landfill in July; 27,344 cubic yards.

The Hicksville Transfer Station, located on Gingrich Road, took in $1,170.75 during the month of July.

The next Solid Waste District meeting is scheduled for Monday, October 20 at the Fulton County Commissioners office.

Today’s meeting adjourned at 11:50 a.m.

Approved for news release: _____________________________

Thomas L. Kime, Commissioner